Holmberg v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent; McDonald, J. Case by Carl O. Holmberg against the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company for personal injuries. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtSteers, J.
On June 18, 1913, shortly after 8 a. m., a loaded gravel train of 16 cars, hauled by a heavy freight engine, south-bound from Grand Rapids to Three Rivers, running as “Extra 5761,” met in a head-on collision a regular north-bound passenger train, No. 532, consisting of four cars and a passenger engine, on a reverse curve of defendant’s road' at the north yard in the city of Kalamazoo. The engineer and conductor of the passenger train were killed and several of the passengers injured. Plaintiff was engineer on the gravel, Extra 5761, and the only person injured on his train, his foot having…
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